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Mayor Alper fired off a telegram to Pope John Paul II asking his help in revoking the sale of the retreat house because of the apparent deception involved. Prayers were said every night for a week at a Catholic church for the young people to muster the strength to ward off any Moonie advances. Pickets began stalking up and down in front of the newly acquired marina carrying signs proclaiming: ONE MOON IN GLOUCESTER...
...theory that white America not only is racist but is losing any feelings of guilt, Jackson urges blacks to turn inward and help themselves. "You must aim high," he has advised. "You must believe you can become a doctor or lawyer or nurse or the alderman for your ward." After the Miami riots, Jackson told his followers in Chicago: "Our young people must not consider it a badge of courage, with blood in their eyes, to run headlong into an organized military brigade, and to run from genocide to suicide. It's a bad strategy and it will...
...like nothing I've ever seen before." He said that Jordan would have been killed if the angle of the first shot had been a centimeter different from its actual path. After surgery Jordan was listed in serious but stable condition in the hospital's intensive-care ward...
...least for now, that message from advertisers is being heard. Kellogg, Montgomery Ward, and Procter & Gamble, three of the heaviest consumer accounts, plan no cutbacks. Kraft cheese is increasing its ad budget by one-third, and Colgate-Palmolive will also spend more this year. Admen are watching nervously, but so far they are still singing happy jingles...
Some combination of these incidents combined to kill Plan E in 1938. But two years later, the forces of clean government, Brattle St. politics and Plan E prevailed, winning every ward of the city except heavily Irish North and East Cambridge. As if to vindicate the Plan E forces, lame duckmayor John Lyons ran a disastrous administration for the intervening two years. Asked by the council to approve purchasing new snowplows, Sutton reports that Lyons replied "the Almighty sends the snow...He will in time remove it." Shortly afterwards, Lyons was convicted on 42 counts of requesting and accepting bribes...